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Sleeping outside is almost never just sleeping outside. There’s open defecation, drug use, public urination, and needles left on the ground that usually accompa
by jquery 8y ago
Sleeping outside is almost never just sleeping outside. There’s open defecation, drug use, public urination, and needles left on the ground that usually accompany it. It’s a major public health hazard.
- pmiller2 8y agoYes, it is, and it should be dealt with as such. Criminalizing peoples’ existence is not dealing with the problem itself.
- jquery 8y agoSurely you don't suggest the police wait around for public defecation? Do you also suggest public intoxication should be legal, since that too is criminalizing (a certain type of) existence. All crimes are crimes of existence, it's a meaningless platitude to call it such. You merely sympathize and think street sleeping should be allowed, likely because you don't have to deal with the consequences of it happening on your front porch.